315 NOTES. Page 2. But, ah! they cannot hear my closing song, "Where are the smiles I longed to gain, The pledge of labour not in vain ?" MONTGOMERY WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD: Address to the Spirit of a departed Friend. "To understand the dedication," says Mr. Hayward, "it is necessary to refer to the history of the book. The plan of Faust appears to have been in Goethe's mind very early in life. He puts it down amongst the works written between 1769 and 1775, in the list appended to the Stuttgart and Tubingen octavo edition of 1829. "According to Dr. Sieglitz, the first part of Faust appeared, in its present shape, in the collected edition of Goethe's works, which was published in 1808."- HAYWARD'S Faust, p. 216. Page 5. Thoughts by the soul conceived in silent joy, "The shifts and turns, The' expedients and inventions multiform, Than by the labour and the skill it cost; So pleasing, and that steal away the thought That, lost in his own musings, happy man! Their wonted entertainment, all retire. Such joys hath he that sings. But ah! not such, There least amusement where he found the most." COWPER. The Task, Book II. Page 5. Sounds often muttered by the timid voice. Was sich die Lippe schüchtern vorgelallt. GOETHE. I have looked from curiosity to Mr. Hayward's translation of this passage, knowing that, though I sought to preserve literal fidelity to the original, mine was coloured by my recollection of Wordsworth. I can scarcely bring myself to quote the lines disconnected from the passage to which they so intimately belong as scarcely to have a separate life; but any one whom I may lead to read for the first time, or to reperuse the poem, will thank me. "I think on thee My brother, and on all which thou hast lost. In some far region, here, while o'er my head When we, and others whom we love, shall meet A second time in Grasmere's happy vale." Poems on the naming of Places. Mr. Hayward's words are, stammered to itself." "What the lip tremblingly |